Women In The Hemingway Novel Writing And Its Cognitive,

Female is a subject worth concerning for almost all of the writers. With the rising of feminism, people are able to pay a review on literature on a new standing point. It is the profound research and vivid reflection on gender and culture speciality that makes Feminism Criticism start a new boundary in contemporary literature study. Therefore, the thesis probes to make a research on Hemingway from the view of Feminism. The thesis is divided into three parts:Chapter one shows the female image under phallocentric context. There are three kinds of female images in Hemingway's works: angel-like, witch-like and struggling. The angel-like type of females is an ideal type in writer's mind. As far as Feminism criticism is concerned, this kind of female image reflects Hemingway's expectancy for females despite a male writer. The moulding of the witch-like females even indicates the writer's preference for the previous type. Concerning the struggling type of females, Hemingway shows his humane concern for women on the status of the weak.Chapter two depicts the cultural connotation under female writing. The angel-like females shaped by Hemingway are provided not only with the feminine traditional virtues, but also with an ability that males admire. The witch-like females in his writing not only have the unacceptable behaviors, but also suggests their valuable perspective of personality. Therefore, on the basis of inheriting the predecessors, Hemingway has transcended them to a certain extent. The following goes to address on the relationship between female images and religious notion from religious point of view. It positions females to a larger cultural space so that it deeply analyzes the connotation of the female image.Chapter three suggests the origin of Female cognitive. The writer's life experiences determine his unique female cognitive. As a male writer, there unavoidably exists some kind of phallocentric culture notion and value orientation under the influence of phallocentric western culture. However, as a writer who lived in a replacement time context of new culture and old culture, and who concerned much about the age and human existence, Hemingway's works also transcended phallocentrism to some extent.